STGT'10 Week 4: Raiden Fighters 2

[Herr Schatten]

what am I doing wrong?

Playing Swamp before Airport. You want Airport as Stage one, as getting 100k medal mode there is much, much easier. Hold up or down when you press Start to guarantee this. Up gives you Sky as 4 and Beach as 5, Down gives you Beach as 5 and Sky as 4.

ive tried that but I cant seem to figure out what to do to get 10k medals? Highest they will go is 9k? My plan was to build my medals to 9k in the swamp to make it even easier on myself for when I got to the airports stage.

I can't get the game to run on my machine, but from the talk about it I gathered that you have to max out all three types of medals before you trigger the gold stuff. So you have to max out the medals you get without a slave (10-90), then the medals you get with one slave (100-900), then the medals you get with two of them (1k-9k). Someone who actually plays the game correct me if I'm wrong.

[VgameT]

VgameT - 46,417,250 - Haru's Time Machine - 7 - Slave (Hell Diver) - MAME

That last score was actually stage 6 I guess. Made it to the last boss? Or a boss in stage 7, anyways. Dropped the medal chain a bunch in stage 3, so I missed many millions of points there. 50m is a real possibility! Gotta push for that 1cc!!

[t0yrobo]

I swear I can't make it past stage two without dying in some idiotic way.
t0yrobo - attack ships on fire - 11,698,490 - 3 - Slave (Hell Diver) - MAME

[ShadowWraith]

I can't get the game to run on my machine, but from the talk about it I gathered that you have to max out all three types of medals before you trigger the gold stuff. So you have to max out the medals you get without a slave (10-90), then the medals you get with one slave (100-900), then the medals you get with two of them (1k-9k). Someone who actually plays the game correct me if I'm wrong.

This is correct, though for some reason you don't actually need to get the 90 value medal and the 900 value medal to unlock it. 10-80 and 100-800 is sufficient, at least on my ROM.

Anyways, this'll be the last score for me this week! Finally managed to not fuck up at some point in stage 7 (that lost one on the TFB really pissed me off)!

ShadowWraith - Team Sweet Tacos - 92,738,710 - ALL - Slave (Dark Sword) - MAME

[ryu]

ryu - Mechaloli Luftwaffe - 16,751,980 - 4 - Slave (Chaser 2000) - MAME

[firestorm]

STG - Fatloli Luftwaffe - 62,923,650 - 7 - Slave - PCB

[sirmax]

sirmax - Zombieloli Kampfgeschwader - 15,781,800 - 3 - Slave (Judge Spear) - Mame



I have no clue what caused the 10k-medals to appear, but I managed to get them to 100k at the end of stage 2, so what do I care.

[Herr Schatten]

Herr Schatten - Team Oldschoolers - 2,879,600 - 3 - Slave (Griffin) - MAME (invisible player bullets edition)

The game inevitably freezes and resets at the beginning of stage 3. I could possibly post a slightly higher score if I managed to not mess up the medal triggers, but this is as much restarting as I can stand at the moment.

[1up]

Playing Swamp before Airport. You want Airport as Stage one, as getting 100k medal mode there is much, much easier. Hold up or down when you press Start to guarantee this. Up gives you Sky as 4 and Beach as 5, Down gives you Beach as 5 and Sky as 4.

ive tried that but I cant seem to figure out what to do to get 10k medals? Highest they will go is 9k? My plan was to build my medals to 9k in the swamp to make it even easier on myself for when I got to the airports stage.
I can't get the game to run on my machine, but from the talk about it I gathered that you have to max out all three types of medals before you trigger the gold stuff. So you have to max out the medals you get without a slave (10-90), then the medals you get with one slave (100-900), then the medals you get with two of them (1k-9k). Someone who actually plays the game correct me if I'm wrong.

thanks for the help. Didnt realize that you had to get each medal stage up also. But after restarting a billion times I final did it, and got all the way to stage 4. Dont think I will be able to better my score this week

1up - Team Denmark - 24,092,740 - 4 - Flying Ray - MAME

[firestorm]

STG - Fatloli Luftwaffe - 72,053,890 - ALL - Slave - PCB

[dex]

m3tall1ca wanted me to just play the game once without practicing or anything, so here it is... I don't know where anything is and I didn't get 100k medals. Should have more time tonight and the next few days to play, now.

sikraiken - TCACTRM - 32,616,480 - ALL - FAIRYOUS - MAME

Fucking hell, man.

You *are* the baddest dude at shmups.

Scoreboard updated, can't do much more today because I have to go again and need to do stuff and I had no time this week either and couldn't even play more than a total of 2 hours arrgh and I'm gonna play the shit out of this and post stuff tomorrow. Because I will probably have time. Probably.

[Hattori Hanzo]

HANZo - Team Dickpenis Cockenstrudel - 52,831,240 - ALL HELL BABY! - shmupmame v2

I just fucking 1cced my first shmup ever! And it feels good
I was about to reset as I entered the dessert with a broken chain and too little score and decided to keep playing for practice. My second best attempt had 48mil in the middle of the Sand Lobster stage.

@dex
Well, he wasn't a complete newbie at RF2, as he played RFJ last year, I guess. But this makes this non the less damn impressive. Making it through the Sand Lobster stage first try alone would make me take off my hat, if I had one. And as he did not know about early chain start and all the Miclus locations, over 30 million is indeed hell.

@ sikraiken
Have you ever had an arcade machine crashing just as you were about to throw in a coin? If you say "more than once", I'd believe it.

[Nifty]

DoubleThink - The Team With No Name - 35,116,350 - 6 - Slave (Judge Spear) - MAME



This is all I have time for, and pretty much all I can bring myself to do. At least week 5 can only be better

[third_strike]

1 hour tryingput slave ships then I found this: http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=15535
KcTuDo Pelé Shooting Team 19,612,350 4 slave
Stupid game!

[RGC]

RGC - Team Casino Royale - 49,759,880 - 6 - Slave (Judge Spear) - MAME

[Aleanil]

Aleanil - Team Lower Quartile - 7,275,690 - 4 - Slave (Blue Javelin) - MAME

Blah.

[ebarrett]

ebarrett - Garrincha Shooting Team - 47,481,070 - 6 - Judge Spear - MAME



Almost good. Wish I hadn't lost a life in the beach stage though, that was really stupid.
(late edit, was putting "Slave" there for no apparent reason - I was using the regular Judge Spear all this time )

[holydiver42]

Huzzah! An improvement!

holydiver42 - The Team With No Name - 1,938,200 - 3 - Blue Javelin - MAME

Mark my words, I will break 2 million. Not exactly a lofty goal, but it's something.

[third_strike]

KcTuDo - pelé Shooting Team - 35,931,300 - 6 - Slave (Aegis IV) - MAME

[DaLar]

DaLar - Team Denmark - 6,426,400 - 3 - Slave (Raiden mk-II Beta) - MAME

[BIL]

BIL - Society for Batriderian Philosophy - 52,335,790 - 6 - Slave (Hell Diver) - MAME

Edited twice with higher scores (and once for spelling).

[sirmax]

sirmax - Zombieloli Kampfgeschwader - 23,727,070 - 4 - Slave (Hell Diver) - Mame

[CRI]

CRI - Fatloli Luftwaffe - 80,565,480 - ALL - Slave (Judge Spear) - PCB


bombed the TLB too death.

missed 1 miclus and 2 broken chains.
maybe +5mil is possible without those mistakes but for more i need bullet scratching and the 1st train on the left at the beginning of st.3.

[spadgy]

Embarrassing NEW LOWER SCORE!

I was playing RFA on default 'normal' difficulty before! When I realised, I jacked it up to 'arcade' difficulty, and got this:

spadgy - Team Casino Royale - 28,325,440 - 6 - Slave (Judge Spear) - RFA

[phrenzee]

phrenzee - Team Denmark - 24,532,960 - 3 - Slave (Hell Diver) - Mame



This is an awesome game

[trap15]

SquidMan - Super Sleep Fighters - 24,914,570 - 3 - Slave (Judge Spear) - MAME

Ugh, I'm moving up (slowly) missing the huge points from the tank miclus in stage 1, then dropping my chain a bunch of stage 3 doesn't help

[dpful]

Dpful - lower quartile - 6,826,230 - 4 - aegis IV - pcb
Dang I havnt checked here in a bit, I just fight for my life and try to get to the big gold medals, but I see now that if I figured out a proper way, I could multiply my score.... Oh well, at least I blew up that fucking train.

This is the first time I felt a little bad about not knowing the secrets of the game. The last 3 had an easier to grasp score mechanic (I mean right while your playing it).

This is probably the best I could do, but I think I'll look up a Vid or something and find all the miclusses later. I love this game.

[DK64_MASTER]

HELL YEAH!!!! Thanks to Hanzo and Zyre on tips on how to get gold medals in Stage 1. Didn't get an All with this score, but that can happen tomorrow .

agill - Dickpenis Cockenstrudel - 57,412,150 - 7 - Slave (Judge Spear) - MAME

[sikraiken]

I have 105M but I'm going to play a little more tomorrow. Sorry it took so long to post anything, Icarus... Haven't had a lot of time to play.

[ookitarepanda]

Fuck the giant tank. Goddamn.

ookitarepanda - Rocky Dennis Shooting Team - 30,464,590 - 6 - Fairy - MAME